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PROPOSED NEW
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
NATURAL GAS RESEARCH
Halvor Dalaker
National Laboratory for studies of gassurface interactions in Metallurgical and
Chemical Industry (MClab)
• Catalysis
• NTNU – Hilde Venvik
• UiO – Unni Olsbye, Anja O Sjaastad
• SINTEF – Jasmina Cavka
• Metallurgy
• NTNU – Leiv Kolbeinsen
• SINTEF – Eli Ringdalen, Halvor Dalaker
• Total budget: 71 MNOK.
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• From RCN: 62 MNOK.
• Metal production approx 30 MNOK
Equipment for increased use of
gas in metal production
• Module based lab
• Rotary kiln*
• Continuous charging
• Fluid bed-reactor
• Particle sizes 0.02-4mm
• gas flows up to 200-500 l/min
• Fixed bed reactor
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Equipment for increased use of
gas in metal production
• Two-zone fixed bed reactor*
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Independently controlled heated zones
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Pre-heat + reaction
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Gas generation + reaction
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In situ IR gas measurement tools developed in KiSelROx-project
• Plasma gas reactor
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For Gas-gas-reaction studies, e.g. SiO + CH4 ->SiC
• HT thermogravimetric analyser*
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Equipment for increased use of
gas in metal production
• Pelletizing
• Pot grate
• Carbon analyser
• Powder measurements
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Other equipment
• TEOM
• XPS for STM
• TAP for IR and UV-VIS
• Dedicated cells for synchrotron studies
• 2D detector for XRD
• Spectro-SSITKA
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Timeline
• October 2016 – Submission
• Fall 2016 – Quotes for own contributions
• June 2017 – Decision in RCN
• Fall 2017 – Negotiations
• Jan 2018 – Likely project start date (M1)
• Jan 2018 – Jun 2019 "Design phase"
• Oct 2019 – Dec 2021 "Implementation phase"
• Milestone: First results M30 (Jun 2020)
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